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Book cover for John Eade: Understanding the City

Understanding the City

John Eade
Paperback - $105.95

This pioneering, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which the study of urban society is likely to take. Leading researchers from sociology, geography, anthropology, and cultural studies examine the research issues that emerged d ...

Book cover for Juan Jose Gomez-Ibarra: A Scientific Model of History

A Scientific Model of History : Where Is the Future Leading Us

Juan Jose Gomez-Ibarra
Paperback - $32.95

Have you ever wanted to know why civilizations decay or why war has been a recurrent phenomena throughout history; what are the forces causing population explosions, and why it is very likely that the power balance between today's developed countries ...

Book cover for Jerald Hage: Post Industrial Lives

Post Industrial Lives : Roles and Relationships in the 21st Century

Jerald Hage
Paperback - $111.95

"The interesting contribution of this book is not just confined to capturing the role changes that a knowledge based society characterizing post-industrialism demands, but that it is able to bring about a fusion of micro individual and the macro soci ...

Book cover for Fred Halliday: The World at 2000

The World at 2000

Fred Halliday
Paperback - $71.95

Beneath the millennial shine of political optimism and technological advance lurk a set of deepuncertainties: global inequality is growing; weapons of mass destruction are spreading; strident assertions of identity divide peoples and states. Overall, ...

Book cover for Alex Heard: Apocalypse Pretty Soon

Apocalypse Pretty Soon : Travels in End-Time America

Alex Heard
Paperback - $32.95

The inspired madness of America's apocalyptic and pre-millennial organizations may have reached a fever pitch with the turn of the twenty-first century, but intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard spent a ten-year period witnessing the crescendo firsth ...

Book cover for Robert L. Heilbroner: Visions of the Future

Visions of the Future : The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Robert L. Heilbroner
Paperback - $63.95

A prophetic vision of the shape of things to come, from one of America's most eloquent economists. Heilbroner gives a penetrating historical overview of how we have thought about the future through the ages, and issues a clarion call to face the chal ...

Book cover for James Hilgendorf: The New Superpower

The New Superpower

James Hilgendorf
Paperback - $21.95

Hilgendorf takes on Hiroshima, the bomb, quantum physics, Buddhism, the beginning and end of time, and the intent of the universe in this work.

Book cover for Jean Houston: Jump Time

Jump Time : Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change

Jean Houston
Paperback - $30.95

Dr.Houston provides practical and potent ideas on ways to create a truly new future for ourselves, our community, and our planet.

Book cover for Leo Howe: Predicting the Future

Predicting the Future

Leo Howe
Paperback - $86.95

Auguries, oracles, omens...and software simulation. From antiquity to the electronic age, Predicting the Future examines humankind's obsessive urge to look beyond the present in the hope of controlling events in the days to come. Opening with Stephen ...

Book cover for Barbara Marx Hubbard: Conscious Evolution

Conscious Evolution : Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Paperback - $29.95

A well-known futurist reveals a quantum change in society and points the way to the third millennium. Barbara Marx Hubbard issues a call to action for the current generation to fulfill its creative potential. Hubbard asserts that we must quickly beco ...

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